@a1man There are instructions right here. It takes 5 minutes.
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Thanks Pamela I was just looking for it and u just post it, Its destiny haha
FYI @Papela you will get told off by the team for distributing binaries, same as my Github repo did:
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It would be nice if the developers actually IMPLEMENTED this 2 year old request and stop making assumptions on where the end-users want the software to live.
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I’m still waiting…
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I can’t see any downside of Obsidian as portable software for the owner. I can see why a proper file handling in iOS (allowing to choose the vault outside the obsidian folder) would be a problem for selling their own (much more expensive) solution. But a portable app, why not? Am I missing something?
That is not the reason why arbitrary vault locations aren’t supported. Apple doesn’t provide the necessary API to easily monitor all files in a vault outside an app’s local storage.
I don’t think there’s any nefarious reason why portable apps don’t have official support other than time being a finite resource.
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I’m also still waiting…
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Bumping to say this is an essential feature for me to use my separate paid plan I bought specifically for work notes. At an org of my size the review process for apps just makes it unlikely to ever get a notes app that is only used by a handful of us approved ahead of the queue of other more “important” apps. I’ll probably try some of the unofficial portable apps, but hope we can see this added to the roadmap at least!
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I would benefit from this hugely, I use obsidian on my phone, and being able to have it on a USB to have anywhere would be extremely useful.
The same for me- would really love a portable version
Same here; give us a portable version, please
+1 totally need a portable version
+1 this would save me a ton of time from re-installing in a virtual environment
+1 I fully support having an official version of Obsidian portable.
For those of us who use it in classes and must move between different computers, I suggest a button that quickly toggles dark/light mode and changes text, colors, etc., to the chosen mode depending on the brightness of the room.
We have an active directory group filer where I wanted to copy Obsidian so that all coworkers can access a Vault that I set up as a group Wiki. Getting everyone to install it will just not happen as long as they are not convinced that it is good. They are not convinced until they can try it really easily. It is not going to be a good wiki unless many people are taking part in it… Chicken–egg… that there is no portable mode impedes my efforts in moving people to Obsidian here. It also does not help that Obsidian does not allow to open a vault by just giving the path to the vault as command line argument like literally every other text editing program in existence (I know Obsidian URL links but that does not help if the user has never opened the vault)
Nevertheless, the starter from the post above is really useful, but to make it run when the Obsidian program files are on a shared drive, I needed to add --no-sandbox to the Obsidian call in the last line, like this:
start Obsidian.exe --no-sandbox
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+1 I prefer using portbale apps anyways. It just allows for more versatility and i can know everything involved even if i have tow apps that share a dependency.
any updates?
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+1 for completely portable app (no external folders from Obsidian laucher folder and no registry touch), besides no need to admin rights run. It would be great!
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+1 make obsidian fully portable
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